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HATTIESBURG AMERICAN

HATTIESBURG, MS

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07/16/2010
111111111111111111111111111111 1111111 Consumers paid
money upfront
Consumers report paying
funds up-front to start the
paperwork for loans, but
have found that after
wiring thousands of dollars
(often to Madrid, Spain),
that no loan is forthcom­
ing.
BILLMOAK Typically, consumers have
paid funds up-front as
Ucollateral," and then are

Cu"ent
called back requesting addi­
tional payments because of
credit issues, or in some
loanscam
cases, problems with "for­
eign investors." Consumers
report losing as much as
usingMiss.
$5,500.
Detective Martin Cohan,..
a cybercrimes investigator
address
with the Peabody, Mass.,
police department, began
Investigating the company
ONSUMERS FROM

C ACROSS the nation


have been calling the
Better Busine.s.s..»..ure ~
recently after being con­
tacted by a consumer. He
noted that the company's
website, www.board­
serving Mississippi a out walkcf.com, was registered
an apparent advance-fee to a California company,
loan scam which is using but ultimately leads to an
the address of a downtown address in the Netherlands.
Jackson building, but inves­ 'Cohan believes the scam­
tigations have determined mers are operating from
that the address is false. Canada.
A company called Board­ Consumers should know
walk Capital Funding has that advance fee loans are
been soliciting loans over illegal, and as soon as you
the Internet, allegedly from wire funds, you have lost
an office located at 200 S. the money. If you are hav­
Lamar St. in Jackson. Inves­ ing financial issues, or need
tigative efforts have deter­ credit, please seek the help
mined that mail cannot be of a qualified nonprofit fi­
delivered since there is no nancial counseling service,
such company at that ad­ or contact a local bank to
dress. see if they can help you ob­
No such company tain a legitimate loan."
If you have been victim­
Furthermore, ·Parkway ized, the BBB advises con­
Properties, which owns the sumers to report it immedi­
building, has confirmed ately to the local police, or
that no such company is a to state or federal authori­
tenant in the building. ties.
A number of cash­ For more information on
strapped consumers have advance-fee loan scams,
applied for loans with visit the Federal Trade
Boardwalk Capital Fund­ Commission's website at
ing, and report wiring http://bit.ly /bXwCrl.
funds, then being hit up
agairi when alleged "prob­ Bill Moak is president of the
lems" come up with the Better Busil1essBureau of
loan applications. ~ Mississippi. E-mail him at
Recently, three con­ www.bbbms.org.
sumers from Florida, Ari­
zona and Ohio had filed
complaints with the EBB.
Several other consumers
have contacted the BBB
seeking information about
the company, and ·reporting
similar co'ficerns.

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